E.Yu.Vanina, an eminent Russian Indologist, exposes the dubious practices deployed by some misguided zealots in the Siberian city of Tomsk to ban the Bhagavad Gita and expounds on the importance of the ancient Hindu text.

Right after the visit of Manmohan Singh to Russia, media reports on the Tomsk prosecutors’ move to ban Svami Prabhupada’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita mar the aftertaste of the meeting between Indian and Russian leaders.